Women Take the Reel Film Festival 2017

Women Take the Reel Film Festival

A Film Festival Celebrating Women’s History Month

This annual film festival is a collaborative effort among Women’s and Gender Studies departments involved in the Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies (as well as select institutions/universities aligned with its mission) that features films directed by women and about issues relating to gender, race, sexuality, class and/or feminism.

The focus is on intellectual investigation of these issues as well as visibility for female directors, and so every film is accompanied by a Q&A and discussion with either the film director, producer, or a faculty member from the film screening’s host institution host institution.

All films are free and open to the public. For Northeastern’s WTTR screening, please see our event page.

WOMEN TAKE THE REEL is a FREE roaming film festival SPONSORED BY: MIT Program in Women’s and Gender Studies; the Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies; Boston College Women’s and Gender Studies Program; Boston University Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program; Brandeis University Women’s and Gender Studies Program; Northeastern University Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program; Simmons College Department of Women’s and Gender Studies; Tufts University Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program; UMass Boston Women’s and Gender Studies Department; Emerson College Department of Visual and Media Arts; and Lesley University.

Film to be followed by Q&A discussion with Melina Abdullah, Professor and Chair of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, organizer with Black Lives Matter, and interviewee from the film 13th.

Film to be followed by Q&A discussion with Sabina Vaught, Associate Professor and Chair of Education and Director of WGSS, Tufts University and Deirdre Judge, MA student in Educational Studies, Tufts University